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unrests

unrests is the plural of unrest.

Meaning of unrest

Noun

unrest (usually uncountable, plural unrests)

  1. (usually) A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.
    • What words are these have fall’n from me?
      ⁠Can calm despair and wild unrest
      ⁠Be tenants of a single breast,
      Or sorrow such a changeling be?1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 26
  2. (usually) Something that troubles or confuses; that which causes unrest.
    • In her pyjamas, Sadie turned back the bedclothes to a single sheet, and settled down under it with a sigh of content; the languors of a body untroubled by mental unrests were a reward for the day's exertions.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 8

Questions about unrests

What is unrests the plural of?
Unrests is the plural of unrest.

Words near unrests in the dictionary

  1. unrestrictive
  2. unrestrictively
  3. unrestrictiveness
  4. unrestricts
  5. unrestructured
  6. unrests
  7. unresultant
  8. unresultful
  9. unresulting
  10. unresumable
  11. unresumed

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